3.0.0 4788 2023-01-11T13:44:24Z 2023-01-11T13:44:24Z Senate S 2020-10-01 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-10-01T20:18:13Z 2020-10-01 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2020-10-01 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000461 Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA] Patrick Toomey R PA J. N C001096 Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND] Kevin Cramer R ND 2020-10-01 True L000594 Sen. Loeffler, Kelly [R-GA] Kelly Loeffler R GA 2020-10-01 True S001197 Sen. Sasse, Ben [R-NE] Ben Sasse R NE 2020-10-01 True P000612 Sen. Perdue, David [R-GA] David Perdue R GA Alfred 2020-10-01 True Education Academic performance and assessments Cardiovascular and respiratory health Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Emergency medical services and trauma care Income tax deductions Infectious and parasitic diseases Licensing and registrations Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2020-10-01 Introduced in Senate 2021-02-24T23:30:55Z Protect Parent Organized Direction of Students Act

This bill prohibits states and localities that regulate the free formation of educational pods from receiving federal emergency education funding for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) relief. An educational pod refers to a small group of three or more students at the elementary or secondary school level who are from more than one family and learn together in person outside of the school.

In addition, the bill temporarily expands the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers to include certain home educators.

]]> Protect Parent Organized Direction of Students Act Display Title Protect Parent Organized Direction of Students Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Protect Parent Organized Direction of Students Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to prohibit States and localities that seek to impede the free formation of education pods from receiving Federal emergency education funds, to provide a teacher expense deduction for home educators, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4788is/xml/BILLS-116s4788is.xml 2020-10-01 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.